May 28, 2025 • 53 mins
DV takes your calls on Tanner Scott after the Dodger closer blows another save and the Dodgers fall to the Guardians, 7-4. Jose Mota joins the show to talk about Scott's struggles. Alex Vesia and Clayton Kershaw talk to the media.
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that they have.
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This team is really becoming a family.
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Let's not play one on Tom, Let's win this. I
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And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until two
thirty this afternoon. Then we'll hand it over to the
overworked Rogan and Rodney and then Petros the Money take
over for a full four hours right here on Dodgers
Radio and five to seventy LA Sports. We have three
lines open at eight six six nine, eight seven two
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five seventy. The Dodgers Fault today in Cleveland seven to
four to the Guardians. They had a golden opportunity to
sweep the Guardians and come back on a winning road
trip that started with them losing two out of three
to the Mets. Instead, they come back five hundred, but
obviously wanting more because they had this game, and unfortunately
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Tanner Scott and Alex Vesia cannot get them to the
finish line, in particular Tanner Scott, who has now blown
five saves after blowing just two all of last season.
And it's funny right already. The spin is out there
with some tweets where it was a seeing eye single
through the left side of the infield by Nolan Jones
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to beat Tanner Scott to tie the game with a
two run single. That's not completely true. I mean that
is where the ball went. But here's my question. And
Tanner Scott, we saw him last year. He was overpowering
at times last year. That's the reason why the Dodgers
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gave him the richest contract of any reliever this past offseason.
What we saw from Tanner Scott and what we have
seen from Tanner Scott is not the same guy that
we saw last year. Where's the guy that dominated Otani?
Last year right one for ten, he owns Otani because
he overpowered him with his fastball. Instead, he's thrown ninety
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six and he's casting his slider this year. I mean,
when you look at this play, this pitch sequencing from
Tanner Scott, he's got Nolan Jones, the leadoff hitter of
the Guardians, down one two, He's got two strikes on
him with one out and the bases loaded. You would
think he would want to try to get swing and
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miss and not put the ball in play. Number one.
Number two, if he and Will Smith have decided on
a slider, is why I'm so I just can't believe this.
That's the reason why. I mean, I'm it's incomprehensible to
me that the Dodger defense was shaded to pull Nolan
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Jones when Tanner Scott and Will Smith and remember there's
a pitch com right, so everybody in their hats here
what pitch is coming? So number one, why is Tanner
Scott and Will Smith not coming up and end to
try to strike out Nolan Jones? Number two? Why are
they throwing a slider away from the left handed hitting
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Jones with the infield shaded for Jones to pull Mookie
Betts was behind the bag. Why are you throwing that pitch?
Why is the defense aligned that way? The defense should
be aligned with the pitch. Is not everybody on the
same page here, So you know this is on Tanner Scott.
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I don't want to hear about how this ball was
seeing guy through the left side of the infield. No,
it was a poor pitch call. It was bad alignment
by the defense and whoever's aligning them. They were not
on the same page. That's the inside of the inside
of baseball that wins or loses games late and the
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Dodgers obviously were not on the same page. And Tanner
Scott obviously has not been the same Tanner Scott from
a year ago. It's utterly frustrating. And if you're Tanner
Scott and you're the closer and you're making more than
anybody else in that bullpen, you should be standing at
your locker after the game today. You know. Kenley Jansen
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used to get criticized early in his closing career after
he blew saves rare saves by the way with the
Dodgers that he wasn't at his locker to be accountable.
Where was Tanner Scott. Today he did not speak to
the media. You've got to be there. It shouldn't be
just Alex Vessia. Sorry, Alex Vesia had to try to
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clean up a mess. Alex Vessi is a two time
World Series champion. He has credibility with this fan base.
Tanner Scott, you don't eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go back
to Cleveland to the only stand up reliever speaking to
the media after he gave up the go ahead three
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run home run to Unhel Martinez. Alex Vesia, I.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Mean tried to throw him, obviously, two change ups and
they were not very good. So and then say fast
balls right down the middles. Gotta be better in those situations. Obviously, Yeah, the.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Little them are hard contact than usual for you. What
do you think is leading to that right now?
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Just misses have been bad. It's pretty much it's gotta
gotta keep going and uh, executing pitches a little bit better.
Is it more mechanical pen that you're kind of working
through or it's just like a bunch of other on sources.
How it's going right now? Made mechanically? I feel fine,
So it's I don't think it's anything regarding that.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I think it's just.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Making bad pitches.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Much just with kind of the workload the bullpen's taken
on lately, Like how tough has it been as a
group just to kind of keep bouncing back, and I.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Mean bullpens, the bullpen, man, I mean it's I feel
like we go through it every year. So it's, uh,
you know, we're a bunch of tough guys down there,
and I'll bet on anybody, so at the end of
the day, I gotta do a better job.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
All right. There's the stand up Alex Vesia, the two
time Series champion, Alex Vesia answering the questions in front
of his locker. Unlike Tanner Scott by the way, Alex Vesia,
I mean, he hasn't been the same guy as far
as keeping the ball in the ballpark. That's been a
problem for him and the rest of the Dodger bullpen
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this year. They have allowed thirty three home runs this year.
That's the second most in Baseball of any bullpen two
the Angels, who have given up one more thirty four
home runs. The Dodgers and Red Sox have blown the
same amount of saves this year twelve blown saves to
lead Major League Baseball. The Dodger bullpen gives up five
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runs today to blow what would have been Clayton Kershaw's
first win of the year. He had a gutsy performance.
He competed his butt off for five innings to put
the Dodgers in position along with their offense to get
this win. But it wasn't meant to be. Eight six, six, nine,
eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number, David
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Vasse with you until two thirty today here on a
five seventy LA Sports. After the Guardians score five in
the eighth and beat the Dodgers seven to four, let's
go out to riverside. Michael lead us off on Dodger Talk.
Hi Michael, Hi Dave, how are you doing. I've been better, Michael.
I'm a little frustrated with way things have gone for
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the Dodger bullpen and for this team, and certainly from
you know, honestly a disappointing start by Tanner Scott.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Well, I wouldn't just say disappointing for Tanner Scott. There's
a lot of pitches on this staff that he just
whipped himself in the mirror and take take Payton Kershaw's
leads on not only competing, but not not just throwing,
but learning how pitch against some of these Major League
Baseball lineups. You know, you know, I've been a lifelong
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Dodgers fan. I grew up in the late seventies going
to the Dodger games when they were playing Yankees in
the playoffs, and I was looking up do that. I
think we've been lucky enough as a fan base to
have some broadcasts over the years. Not only been, of course,
but Rick Monday, as you mentioned yesterday, how his baseball
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IQ and just his knowledge of the game is second
to none. And we're not only lucky enough to have him,
but Jose Mota as the second one. You know, he's
got an amazing insight as well, and uh you know, uh,
it's it's it's refreshing to to to get their takes
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on a day and a day off basis not only
there but yours as well. One thing I will mention,
uh in conclusion of the broadcasting, Uh, he made comments
with regard to I believe it was Wayne Rendozo a
few days ago on the Apple broadcast or what have you,
and how much of a homer. He is for a
team that he doesn't even represent anymore. But uh, you know,
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I I do understand broadcasts are homers to a certain
extent for the teams that they actually are employed by.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Well, I'm not a big believer in homers. That's not
what we're accustomed to in La, Michael. I mean, if
you grew up in La, we had the best of
the best, and we all knew they obviously wanted their
teams to win, but they always called it down the middle,
some more than others. Chick hern Ward on his sleeve
a lot, but Vince Scully, Bob Miller, even Dick Emberg
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back in the day. And look, my only gripe with
Wayne Randazzo that night was that he was basically calling
the umpire stupid when that broadcast booth that had no
idea about the rule as far as what it is
to tag up when a ball is being babbled. That
was my only gripe is it's fine if you don't
know the rule, but you're basically calling everybody else the
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idiot when they had the call right, and honestly, even
Brian Gorman in New York, I mean, yeah, he had
it right. They went to him, and that was a
good thing to have that tool at their disposal. Look,
I'm not in the business of criticizing broadcasters or play
by play guys. They're like in the cockpit flying a plane.
It looks a lot easier than what it is. It's
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not that easy. So I'm not in the business of
criticizing play by play guys. Let's go out to Eric
in the two one three. You're on Dodger Talk. How
you doing Eric?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You doing good? Dave Man. I love your passion, man,
I love the fire in you because it tells me
that you care and I care too. You know a
few things really quickly, Man, Why is Kim not playing? Man?
He started?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
That's not the reason why they lost today. Kim's a
role playing I know that, of course.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
No, No, hold on, hold on, I know that. I'm
just I'm just trying to get my points out. I'm
just saying, but.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Why would you call about hay Song Kim when the
Dodger bullpen gave up five runs in the eighth inning.
It has nothing to do with today's game, because.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You're not letting me finish my take, man, Okay, well
finish it. I'm calling about it. I'm calling about it
because he started off hot, then you benched him. It's all,
you know, Roberts Freeman being cute. And it leads me
to my next take, which is putting in Tanner Scott
right in the seventh inning, Like, what is there like
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something that I don't know in terms of the splits?
Is he doing something different? You know, baseball players are
creatures of habits.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I noticed because I used to be a baseball player myself.
It's very routine.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Orient Well, here's a memo for you, Eric. It doesn't
matter if it's been the ninth inning, the eighth inning,
or the seventh inning. Tanner Scott has not been the
same guy. And Dave Roberts put him in to face
a weak part of the lineup, maybe to help him
get his confidence back, and he still couldn't get the outs.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
And guess what this leads me to. My next take
is Freedman giving the contracts to the wrong guys. Why
are you know?
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Look, okay, hold on, hold on, let me ask you
a question. Were you celebrating in the streets when he
signed Tanner Scott Because the rest of the baseball world
was they couldn't believe they signed him, and everybody thought, Okay,
that's it. So you know, be honest with me. When
they signed Tanner Scott, were you excited?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And and snell.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
I asked you a question, Eric, I asked you a question.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
No, I'm saying what am I saying, David? I'm saying
that I was happy because when he signed, snell I
was happy to blast. Now when he signed Glass Now
the year before, I was happy too. So here's here's
my question. This is my question. Okay, is it are
we signing the wrong guys and they're getting injured or
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is there something more going on in terms of the
pitching staff, the workload, what we're doing with these pictures
that are leading to these injuries.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Man, all right, well you're going all over You're going
all over the place with that question. You're talking about
Tanner Scott, who's healthy, You're talking about the off season signings.
You're all over the place on that, Eric. So I
can only answer the questions that I can answer. The
pitching injuries is one thing. Signing the wrong guys is another.
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The Dodger signed what everybody thought were the right guys,
but they just haven't performed. Snell got hurt, Tanner Scott
hasn't performed, Michael Confordo hasn't performed, Kirby Yates has been. Okay,
so every off season signing hasn't panned out the way
everybody thought it would, not just in the Dodger front office,
but across LA and across Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Okay, but here's my question. Are you here, Dave?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
You have a lot of questions that are not connecting.
You went from Hay Song Kim to Tanner Scott to
pitch your internet. I gotta move on. Sorry, Sorry, you
were bouncing all around like a Plinko board on prices right.
I'm very happy to answer all these questions. But Hay
Song Kim and bringing in Tanner Scott in the seventh
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inning have nothing to do with each other. They are
mutually exclusive. And Hay Song Kim not playing today had
nothing to do with Tanner Scott and Alex Vesia giving
up the game in the eighth inning. Sorry, let's go
to Walnut.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
Jay.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
You're on Dodger Talk. Wow, j My head have to
get my head back on straight after that call.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, most definitely, so as I see it, for the
Dodger pitching, we are terrible and the amount of contracts
they just gave out to terrible pitchers like Blake Snell,
Tanner Scott for example.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Were they terrible though? Isn't there a reason why other
teams were trying to sign them? And you know they
they were coveted as much as they were. I don't
feel like they are terrible. And when Blake Snell gets back,
I don't think I.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Think he'll be when it comes to actually doing their
part of the job.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Oh, right now, they haven't done their job. You're right, Jay,
it hasn't been a good start for those guys. So
what's your solution?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Work with somebody like that and you can't get any
wins or you can't get the job done. It's like,
I don't know how the team must feel having a
ride with those guys on the bus, on the plane.
It's it's terrible, man. It's making everybody upset.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And in the.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Offseason when they signed all these guys, I didn't think
it was a great idea.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Oh really, there's.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Much better pitching out there.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
That Really, who did you want the Dodgers to sign?
Why don't you tell me what your shopping list was
and what you could have done better instead of Tanner Scott,
the best closer on the market, and Blake Snell along
with Max Free, the two best starters on the market.
The only argument you would have, Jay, that would hold
credibility at this point was the Dodgers maybe should have
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signed Max Freed instead of Blake Snell. And even that
is a huge armchair quarterback call.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah, but se that's that's that's a problem. Are either
the pitching coaches are not.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Oh yeah, it's the pitching coach's fault that a two
time Cy Young winner decided to pitch through a shoulder
issue that they could have nipped in the bud if
he was just honest with them. Sorry, Jay, apologize. That's
not on the pitching coaches. It's not on Andrew Friedman.
Blake Snell is our pregame guest two Saturdays ago and
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even took responsibility for that. So here's my thing. Here
are guys that have signed big contracts, Michael CONFORDO even
for one year, big contract, Blake Snell, Tanner Scott. At
some point you have to acknowledge, especially early in the year,
We've seen this time and time again. We're seeing it
in New York with Wan Soa and the Mets. These
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guys try too hard to impress to justify their contracts,
and then they settle into it. I fully expect that
to happen with Blake Snell. I hope that happens with
Tanner Scott. Like I said today, that was a groundball
to shortstop. If Mookie Betts is positioned where he needed
to be on a slider away from a left hander,
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it makes no sense why the Dodgers infield was positioned
to pull on a left handed hitter like Nolan Jones
when there's two strikes on him, and Tanner Scott and
Will Smith on the pitch com are saying they're going
away with a slider. Where's the strikeout pitch? By the way,
as well, how about don't leave it to chance and
strike them out, throw a fastball up and in tie
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him up and move on with the bases loaded. Eight six, six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number
Dodgers blow their twelfth save of the season. That's the
most in baseball. With the Boston Red Sox as the
Guardians a void, a three game sweep seven to four.
Let's go out to see me Valley Sam you're on
Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
How you doing, Sam, I'm doing pretty good. This whole
Tanner Scott situation brings back memories of Tom Devency or
when he gave a home up. I'm not home runs
up in the in a playoff game or a World
series and they end up losing the series.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah, that was the NLCS in nineteen eighty five. He
gave up a home run to Ozzie Smith and Game
five and then gave up a go ahead home run
to Jack Clark, and it's completely different. So go ahead
with your call.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Well, yeah, I just and then he came back to
next year and then just Temyer didn't perform at all.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Yeah, he was old.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
But I do what yeh, what I do like is
or your point that you said that they brought him
in in the Panner Scott in the bottom of the
order to try to build up his confidence. I didn't
even think about that. And that was that was I
really I thought that was a really good point you
brought up.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Hey, thank you. Do you know what the batting averages
of the players he faced were. We're talking about a
one fifty hitter, We're talking about a two sixteen hitter.
We're talking about a two forty six hitter. We're talking
about a catcher that probably is one of the worst
hitting catchers in baseball the last two years. Austin Hedges
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batting a Buck thirteen. I mean, those are the guys
we're talking about.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
Yeah, and it should be easy out see and get the.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Ball, and get the ball to Alex Vesia, who would
have came in in a clean inning to face the
top of the order. That was the thinking behind Dave
Roberts' strategy. Appreciate the phone call, and thank you again
for bringing up the most traumatizing moments of my childhood
watching the Dodgers, Tom Needon Fure giving up home runs
to the Cardinals in the eighty five NLCS. I don't
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know if you know this, but after he gave up
that home run to Jack Clark in Game six, in
the ninth inning of the eighty five NLCS, there was
a picture, black and white picture in the Herald Examiner,
the old Great Sports section, of Tommy Lasorda in his
office with both hands over his head, buried in his desk.
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I cut that picture out and put it on my
bedroom door until spring training the next year, and the
reason why Tom Needon Fure was in that game. Steve
Jaeger Rick Monday have explained this to me. He was
overworked that year because I'm fortunately Steve House demons caught
up with him in the beginning of the year. So
Tom needing Fewer was the best reliever and was overworked
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by the time they got there in the NLCS. So
thank you very much for bringing up that great memory
of Tom needing Fewer and the Dodgers. All right, let's
go out to Huntington Beach. Paul, enough of David vasse
traumatization as a Dodger fan. How you doing, Paul.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
I'm good man, I loved, I loved, fired up David
pass I appreciate you today, dude, and I'm with you.
I don't know why we're comparing a loss in May
to giving up an NLCS on an over the hill
pitcher who's over worked compared to a guy that's.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Six weeks into a season.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
But that's beside the point. Yes, book man, I'm as
frustrated as anybody. The Bullton has been unwatchable. Twelve blown
saves is unexcusable. But let's be honest, dude, I mean,
we got at least four guys down there in the
pen that aren't even on this team. If we're healthy,
and if the nuts right, I mean, we're not healthy.
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So it is what it is. But this team is
doing very well considering everything they're dealing with. And by
the way, we went through something really similar last year,
except it was on the physician player side. Let's we forget.
We were running an infield out there of Nick Ahmed
and Cavin Bizzio and Chris Taylor on the regular and
we and we weathered that storm. We're gonna weather this
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storm and it's gonna be okay. I mean, if this
team were five games under five hundred, we can hit
the panic button. Otherwise, we have a road trip against
two really good teams and we come out of it
three and three in the midst of a dogfight of
a schedule at this point in the season.
Speaker 10 (22:45):
So yes, it sucks.
Speaker 11 (22:47):
Yes we get frustrated, but let's not compare anyone to
Tom mean feor let's take a deep breath. It's not
even freaking June first. All right, dude, I'm fired up too.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
I'll talk to you later on Hey Paul and Hintim
Beach the voice of re right there. I'm sure he
was at HQ Gastropub making that phone call, but he's right.
And I've used that comparison to last year as well.
Coming out of the All Star break, the Dodgers were
banged up for a variety of different reasons with their
position players and had to run out those guys and
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it was a rough patch. But the biggest difference is
there is nothing more demoralizing to a team than giving
up leads in the ninth inning or in the eighth inning,
when you think you have the game sewed up and
you have your closer coming into the seventh inning and
then into the eighth inning. There is nothing more demoralizing
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than a blown save. Trust me, the Three Red Sox
can attest to that. The biggest difference for the Red
Sox and four was not trading Nomar, it was getting
a real closer in Keith Folk. The Three Red Sox
blew so many leads late in the game, and the
Dodgers right now are in that category. They have lost
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twelve demoralizing leads they lead the league and blown saves
twelve and we're only what eight weeks into the season.
There is nothing more demoralizing than that, and that's part
of the reason why today, despite winning two out of
three in Cleveland, was a gut punch to lose this
game today, and even more concerning, like our guy, the
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Voice of Reason in Huntington Beach, Paul said, the Dodgers
are banged up in their bullpen. Hopefully they get Kirby
Yates back on this upcoming homestand hopefully Michael Kopek is
not that far behind. But you're not gonna be able
to go to those guys back to back games or
three out of four. Keep that in mind as well.
Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
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the phone number Dodgers fall to the Guardians today, seven
to four. Let's go out to David in Century City.
You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, David?
Speaker 12 (24:52):
Hey, David, I'm too in fine. I called you last
year and said you were my Dodgers therapist. I think
you need a Dodgers therapist today.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Yeah, we need a leather cap.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
But you're doing a great job. I was thinking about
your idea the other day about Bobby Miller coming in
in a relief position, and I actually thought about there's
a comp in Dodger history for someone like that, almost
the identical situation, and that was Eric Ganie. Yeah, he
came in as a starter, he kind of scuffled for
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a couple of years, and then he was the most
dominant closer for three consecutive years.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Great comparison.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
I think maybe Bobby could could fill that kind of role.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
And Danye was a fastball change up guy, and Bobby
Miller could be a fastball change up guy.
Speaker 12 (25:45):
Maybe you can arrange a meeting.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
I would love to. Danye is my guy. I gave
him a tour of Dodger Stadium and the Speakeasy a
couple of opening days ago. But hey, that's a great call, David.
That's a great comparison of a success story. Obviously, I
hate to say this, Pegagne. He had a little help
to be the guy that he was, but nonetheless he
was a better closer than he was a starter.
Speaker 12 (26:09):
He has a streak that I don't think I'll ever
be broken.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Eighty four eighty four yeah days, yeah, eighty four consecutive saves.
All right, and I'm with you, Bobby Bullpen, We're all in.
Speaker 12 (26:20):
So just to light in the mood, where was I
when Freeman hit Oh see.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
I love that on the eve of the World Series rematch.
All right, David, I said this at the beginning of
the year. I don't care the situation the blown saves.
I want to hear where you were when Freddy hit
his slam.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
So you know, I was on pins and needles with
my whole family in front of the TV, just thinking,
you know, the most negative thoughts about, oh my god,
we're about to go down, you know, one game to
nothing against the dreaded Yankees, and then all of a sudden,
he hits that home run and he holds that bat
up like a saber, and it was just a glorious moment,
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and I think something that every Dodger fan will remember
for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Are you gonna make it to any of the three
games this weekend? David, I will not.
Speaker 12 (27:09):
The prices are way too.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
High, are they. I haven't checked.
Speaker 12 (27:13):
Oh one more thing, one more thing. I was at
the Rick Monday game when he saved the American flag.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Wow, I mean you've seen a lot.
Speaker 12 (27:19):
Where was I moment?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
You sound young. I like your voice. You sound like
a very spry seventy years old.
Speaker 12 (27:27):
We'll not quite said, I'm not quite sixty yet, but
I was was actually there with you were a kid,
was there with a group of friends. Yeah, we were
there all together for a Sunday game, and we all
saw it together and it was you know.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Well, I take it back. You're right on point. You
do sound like a sixty year old, no doubt.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
All right, Well, thank you so much, Dave. Keep doing
a great job.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
All right, call back anytime. Thanks for the phone call.
Sorry about that, I said seventy. I thought maybe you
were twenty or something when Rick saved that flag in
seventy six. I apologize. Sixty years old. All right. We're
gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. When
we come back, we'll check in with Jose Mota. We'll
hear from Clayton Kershaw, who pitched very well today and
deserve to win. Unfortunately, the Dodgers give up five runs
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in the eighth inning and lose to the Guardians today
seven to four on A five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
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Speaker 6 (28:32):
This is Dodger Talk with David Bassen, no highlight, no highlight,
No on hell Martinez go ahead, three run, home run highlight.
The Dodgers fall to the Guardians today, seven to four.
They end their six game road trip five hundred three wins,
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three losses. They lost two out of three in New
York and win two out of three in Cleveland, but
obviously a downer on the flight home they thought they
had a sweep. Unfortunately they did not, as they had
seven four runs on seven hits, while the Guardians seven runs,
fifteen hits and scored five runs in that eighth inning.
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David vass with you until the bottom of the hour.
Well check in with Jose Mota in a moment. Also
a very entertaining day in Dodger history. And we also
want to send out our birthday wishes to Kirk Gibson.
Happy birthday, Gibbie, and also happy birthday to mister clutch
Jerry West, who he lost in the last year. Incredibly,
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I had a tighter relationship with Jerry West than I
do with Kirk Gibson, so I missed Jerry West a lot.
We would have a yearly dinner myself and Doug gricoryan
with Jerry West. One of the dinners that we went
to recently before he passed away was at the Dalray.
We went there and that was an awesome dinner Phil
trainees obviously, and the last time we had dinner together
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with Jerry West was a couple of years ago before
the game of a Clipper game at Staples Center because
they had a home game and we made a way
to meet him there. He invited us there and got
us tickets and obviously Duck recording and Jerry West go
a long ways away. When Doug was covering him with
the Herald Examiner, I got to know Jerry threw the
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great Duck recording and my one of my mentors, Joe McDonald.
They included me and those dinners and some of the
best basketball stories you would ever hear, and one of
the great guys you will ever meet, Jerry West. So
Karen West and Ryan and the rest of the family
were thinking about you, and of course Number forty four
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Dodgers lost today, but Clayton Kershawn, making his third start
of the year, pitched really well. He went five innings
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today and there's an argument to be made he could
have gone six innings today. Let's head back to Cleveland
to here from the future Hall of Famer.
Speaker 13 (31:14):
Yeah, I mean the first sitting was pretty rough.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (31:16):
You know, I think Andy making that throw, getting that
guy out a second was huge for me. Limited the damage.
And you know, I'm fighting some stuff mechanically and different things.
I was able to make a few pitches here and
there to get through five, but obviously wasn't pitching good
enough to be able to stay in the game, which
you know makes the Bowl been after more innings, and
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you know, sometimes stuff like this happens. So you know,
frustrating for sure, but you know, I think at the
same time, there's some there's some progress, still more reps
and you know, overall, to only give up one run
and pitch that bad is a good thing, so just
on to the next one. So it's that kind of
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like what you're hitting on last start, like you just
need to kind of need the reps at this point
just to kind of yeah, there's just some stuff I
need to just hammer down. I think I've created some
bad habits and you know, and just with with not
feeling my best, I think I created some bad habits
last year, so and then I haven't pitched a while.
You know, I haven't pitched a long time, So there's
just some growing pains. I think with the first you
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and you know, physically feel great, just gotta keep throwing
and figuring it out.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Where do you see that translates or just when the
command gets a little inconsistent or kind of executing.
Speaker 13 (32:31):
I mean, I think at the end of the day,
you just you know, when you're going good, you throw
a bad pitch, you can make the adjustment on the
next one. And right now the adjustment's just not happening
fast enough. So it just comes with time and reps
and I hope and we'll just keep doing that, all right.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
There's Clayton Kershaw. After five innings, he competed his way
through that allowed just one earned run and you heard
him say, yes, Andy pat has made a couple of
strong throws. Ta Oscar Hernandez also some strong throws. So
Andy Pa has quietly has become a guy for the Dodgers,
a dude, as they say, hitting two seventy now with
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an ops of seven sixty seven. He drove in a
run today and certainly has played really good outfield since
the beginning of the season. He has put in the
work and he has seen the fruits of that labor.
And Kershaw corrects me, he didn't feel like he deserved
to go back out there. He feels like he had
a very fortunate five innings. But he's going to be
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harder on himself than anybody else. And he's right. He
hasn't pitched an over a year. This was only really
his second start of the year because of the rain
in New York, where he only got to go two innings.
So this will be a gradual build up and hopefully
the next time out he can go six innings at
the very least. I know that's what he expects. He
doesn't really celebrate five innings. In case you're wondering, he
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did have three strikeouts today, so he's just twenty six
away from three thousand in his career. Seven two, five
seventy is the phone number. We'll get back to your
calls in a moment, but first.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
It's tough to go around the horn with Hoseane Mota.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
All right, jose Mota, you just heard from Clayton Kershaw.
What did you think about his outing and do you
believe that it is a work in progress?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Oh, it is a work in progress. But I'll tell
you what, man, he stands up like a man and
faces really reality and where he is on the things
that he wanted to do better. And that's his picture
credibility and accountability right there to say, hey, I know
that there's some things that I missed with there's a
couple of pictures early that he got squeezed with. He
just got the ball and right back auld work, and
I think I truly admire that. And you know, even
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though the Dodgers starting pictures have been scuffling, getting you
through six or seven innings, we've got to take it
one step at a time with him, his execution got
better as a game progressed. So I know he demands
a lot of out of himself. But you know what,
kurse last seven innings right now? He is allowed one
earn run and I'll take that any single time, and
his leadership should sort of well in the clubhouse in
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that right now, not just by what he brings, what
he carries, but also the way he acts and how
much he demands of himself every single time out.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
All right, let's fast forward to the eighth inning. Jose,
I've talked about this and Tanner Scott not getting many strikeouts,
and I just couldn't figure out why the Dodger defense
was not on the same page, or why Tanner Scott
was not on the same page with his defense. With
the pitch choice with two strikes on Nolan Jones.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I mean, it really comes down to execution, and he
used it out execute. I went back and looked at
spray charts on Nolan Jones, I went back and looked
at locations on Tanner Scott, and it really comes down
to Tanner Scott not making a pitch. Now, I did
share with you the high view, high home view of
the defense, and with a guy that throws that hard,
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usually you want to see an adjustment up the middle
with your middle infielder. Because if you notice that chart
and what I said to that graph, the outfielders are
playing opposite field and I mean they're shaded way over
the left field, but the middle is not. The infield
is not. And in that case, it's gonna come down
with Mookie Betts as he learns a position more and
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more to adjust on the fly. David, I'm telling you
is it doesn't come overnight. But those are things that
you have to do better at. Considering that the slaughter
is not a put away pitch right now for Tanner
Scott and the fact that if you stop the bat
on contact, it was just that location. But I do
want to see with two strikes on the leftild throws
out hard. Two things. Number one, this guy Lola Jones
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says one a ten against fastballs, and I know we
made that suggestions, which is a very good one one
at against fastballs. Number two is the white pout pitch
is not there right now and lefties are hitting three
fifty seven against you know, Tanner Scotts. There are so
many things to look at. But on the defensive side,
I do agree with you that you have to read
the swings and go out there and protect the outer
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half opposite field because a LEFTYBD like that, who's not
considered a power guy, just gives you more of a
chance to find holes, and he did.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
The consensus is Tanner Scott's finding too much of the plate,
whether it's a slider or a fastball, no doubt. How
does he get back to the Tanner Scott that the
Dodgers signed.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
He's got to work down Dave. I also went back
and looked at some of the things they did last year.
Where he lived, you know, we say where he lived,
the heat map. Everything's above right now, everything is you know,
above the knees and at the waist and bigley. Hitters
are not going to be full by ninety seven ninety
eight if you're living upstairs now. To make that fast
more more effective obviously is to vary the eyes of
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the hitters. And he's not doing it right now. The
slider is not a wipeout pitch right now because he's
thrown it too high. As you talked about, he's casting it,
he's not ripping it as Kershow does and did so
well today a couple of times, and that is constantly,
and hitters can smell that righty's lefty. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
You see when he pitch down on hedges. What happened
and certainly that was good execution, but he's not their
consistent basis and very unpredictable to see exactly where it's
going to go. But he definitely has to work down
in the zone a little bit more to get more
chases and even walk around with guys swinging around the
edges a little bit more. But I just don't see
it happening, and maybe he needs to adjust a little
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bit more on the way he thinking with one mile
hour lesson last year that he perhaps thinks need to
be adjusted for him.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers fall to
the Guardians today seven of four. Jose, let's talk about
something good. And the Dodger outfield has gotten a lot
of bet a lot better with Taoscar Hernandez getting more
reps in right field getting comfortable there, and Andy pie
is putting in so much work with Dino Ebel today
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it kind of helped kershaw last five innings.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
You go back to just three weeks ago, and so
let me go back to the first week of the season.
You and I were talking about this and you're like,
do you think this outfre is going to be challenging
going first a third? And yeah, the first couple of weeks. Yes,
that's changed now. Guys are attacking the ball. Now, guys
are taking better routs of the ball. Andy Piez is
a difference maker in the affield by the way he
goes after balls with his angles and how he throws
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a baseball. But it really saved curse today. But these
guys going out there and knowing that you got to
cut down the distance to see that third base coach
hold their arms up. Even if you're just charging hard,
you got to just have a reaction from a coach
or a player to say, I can't go right there.
And the guys are making very accurate So you know,
kudos Toadino and all the works he's put in. But
certainly I do admy the fact that even going back
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to the first second week of the season, things have
changed drastically in just the outfield play and how many
more runs they're saving nowadays.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
All right, they'll need all that defense. That was the
difference in the World Series last year, along with Freddie
Freeman being on another planet. Can't wait to see you
at Dodgers Stadium on Friday for Dodgers Yankees again.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Jose, All right, my friend, keep doing a good job, thank.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
You, thank you. There he goes Jose mode. I can't
stand too many compliments. Seated Jose eight six six nine
eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
fall to the Guardians seven to four. They are still
still going to be in first place. At the end
of today, they're thirty four and twenty two, tied in
the lost column with the San Diego Padres. Let's go
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out to Jim in Torrance, who also wants to flash
back to nineteen eighty five. Hi, Jim, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 14 (40:23):
Hey Dave, let me tell you something. Today was tough
to watch, but I'll tell you in eighty five that
was a killer. I'm the guy that took the picture
of Tommy Lesorda after the loss that you were talking
about a little earlier, And I'll tell were you really were.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
You were the guy that night. I had your photo
on my bedroom door for a whole year.
Speaker 14 (40:48):
You did that makes me happy and sad because it
was a sad picture.
Speaker 6 (40:53):
Yeah it was. I was depressed. Even eleven year old
kid knew not to pitch to Jack Clark.
Speaker 14 (41:02):
Well, I'll tell you Tommy was great when they won
great for pictures, but in a case like this, when
when the Dodgers lost or it was really tough, he.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Was a frightening guy.
Speaker 14 (41:14):
I went into it to his office and I was
hiding behind a guy named Alan Malamud.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
You might know him.
Speaker 6 (41:20):
Yeah, that was a good guy to hide behind. He
was pretty big.
Speaker 14 (41:24):
Well, he's a good guy to be behind. Corecoryan was
in there, and there was only.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
Why would you pitch to Jack Clark Why.
Speaker 14 (41:34):
They were a little more subdued, but only three reporters
had the guts to go in there and talk to
him because he could be tough, and knowing that, I
literally snuck in behind him, had my camera ready. I
was behind Malamud and I was watching and watching, and
when his hands went up over his face, I shot
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one frame and I'm telling Dave, I ran out the
door and survived.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
Hey, that picture said one thousand words, And uh, that's awesome, Jim,
thank you for calling. That's a full circle moment for me.
One of the most traumatizing sports moments in my life.
That and the Lakers losing in Game seven of the
eighty four Finals.
Speaker 14 (42:17):
Yeah, that was another one, Dave. I appreciate that and
if you lit up my day when you mentioned a.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Picture I shot.
Speaker 6 (42:24):
Hey, you lit up my day years ago. I know,
I know, I wish. Oh man. Let's let's leave it
right there, Jim. Okay, let's not go down any further.
All right, thank you, Jim. I appreciate the phone call.
Those were two great columnists in Tommy's office, that's for sure,
Doug Grecreyn and the great Alan Malamode. Malamud eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
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Let's stay in the OC. Well, let's go down to
the OC. Sorry, I know Torrence is the South Bay.
I apologize, Orange County. Steve, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 15 (42:56):
How you doing, Hey, I'm great, Thank you, Dave. You know,
the guy from Hunting to Beach was very uplifting what
he had to say. My take so far is that
our starting pitchers are not giving us the innings that
we need. We're almost like it's almost like every game
is an opener. Kurse did a great job today. Our
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bullpen is just tired. Too many innings. I don't fault
fetch you for his mistake today. They happened the a bullpen. Guys,
They're not allowed to have a bad day. They have
to be perfect every time they go out, and we
all know people aren't perfect. I think Tanner Scott needs
to sit down for five days. He needs to get
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his act together. And I'm going to be controversial here.
The Dodgers have had a non group come out and
be a pregame.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
Come on, Steve, you're gonna go that route.
Speaker 15 (43:49):
No, no, no, hang on, And that was a real debacle.
But I'll tell you who's the starting pitcher right now,
who come in and pitch for a thousand bucks, who's
worth one game shot? And that's Trevor Bauer, who could
come in and give us innings. I know he's not
like there. I know he's controversial, but you lay it
on the line for this guy, say, look, you got
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one game, you're gonna get a thousand bucks. Give us
this six innings and we'll see.
Speaker 6 (44:13):
What treating it like a Sunday Beer League. They're not
just bringing in a guy for one thousand dollars in
a major league game. Steve, thank you for the phone call.
Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
phone number. Look, that's that phone call started out really well.
And then it evolved. So I'm sorry, but I thought
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maybe the best suggestion was our guy David in Century City.
Going with what I suggested the other day, the Dodgers
should consider Bobby Miller coming out of the bullpen, at
least for the short term and see where it goes
from there, because right now they need some help in
that bullpen. And like you said, I thought it was
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a great pull. Eric Gangne was He's a middling starter,
And actually the Dodgers gave the Blue Jays the option
of either Luke Procopec or Eric Ganne in an offseason
trade for Jason Worth. The Blue Jays chose Procopec, and
Ganie got wind of it and obviously got a wake
up call when the Dodgers told him you're going to
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the bullpen. And he became the most dominant closer of
his generation. Eighty four consecutive saves, and he did it
with ninety nine miles an hour, and he did it
with a bugs Bunny changeup, and we got a glimpse
of what could be for Bobby bullpen if the Dodgers
decided to have Miller become a relief pitcher. Ninety nine
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to one, Soto eighty six change down in a way.
That's all he needs as a late inning reliever. Here's
another suggestion. Ben Casparius has been so valuable in so
many different ways. Right He's come in, he's opened, he's
pitched three innings, he's pitched one batter. I feel like
at this point in time, the Dodgers can find a
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Lou Trevine or a Matt Sower to be a guy
that can cover two or three innings. They need Ben
Casparius right now to be a high leverage reliever in
the seventh, eighth, or even ninth inning. Ben Casparius is
a big time weapon. And I know he's a starter.
He could even start if they decided to go that route.
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But they need him as a high leverage reliever, and
he would do it. He's embraced everything the Dodgers have
asked him to do. It's time to consider Ben Casparius
as a high leverage reliever in the eighth inning, a
four out type of guy. Whether it's a closer on
certain nights or a guy that bridges from the seventh
inning to the eighth inning. It's time for Ben Casparius
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to be a high leverage reliever. Let's take one more
phone call before we share one of the most memorable
entertaining situations in recent Dodger history. Let's go out to Oceanside. Paul,
you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Paul, I'm doing well, Dave.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Thank you. You've had some funny callers today.
Speaker 6 (47:03):
Yeah, you're not gonna suggest bringing back Yassi ol Puigue.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
Are you get to pitch? Yeah?
Speaker 16 (47:11):
No, But I would like to expand a little bit, Dave,
if you would please on this. I'm gonna piggyback the
uh Eric Guignier thing and the Bobby Miller thing. If
you could maybe enlighten us on when the Dodgers have
like these really good starting pitchers in triple A, do
they not want to use them as short term relievers
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because of the development of the picture or why do
you know why we wouldn't bring up a couple of
these guys justice do some spot eighth, seventh, eight things
like we could have used today? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (47:48):
Number one, it has a lot to do with development.
They don't want to stunt the young man's development as
a starting pitcher, and a lot of times you're kind
of playing with their career, right, Paul, Because they're a
starting pitcher, all of a sudden, you're going to make
them a relief pitcher. I think the Dodgers want to
give some of these guys more of an opportunity to
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prove that they can start. But for whatever reason, it
hasn't clicked with Bobby Miller. The Dodgers have to consider
and Bobby quite honestly, would have to embrace this role
if he wants to be in the big leagues this
year and help the Dodgers make a run for his
second World Championship, that would be the best role for
him to be a relief pitcher in some form or fashion.
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And who knows, you know, closers I e. Tanner Scott
make a lot of money being a really good relief pitcher.
So it's up to the team obviously to make that
decision with the player. But the players has got to
want to embrace that role.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Great, Thank you, Dave. Yeah, I thought it might be
development wise, could stunt them, but really appreciate your work
and keep.
Speaker 6 (48:57):
Up the good job, all right, Paul, thanks a lot
for the phone call. Appreciate it. Yeah, you know, I
could say Bobby Miller and the Dodgers could believe Bobby
Miller could help them out of the bullpen. But unless
Bobby Miller believes it and embraces it, it's not going
to work. So we'll see. I don't know where his
head's at, where the Dodgers head's at right now, but
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certainly it could work. It can work, and Ben Casparius
may be needed as a high leverage reliever considering Evan
Phillips has no timetable on his return, Blake Trinin not
expected to come back until the final months of the season.
So it's not the craziest idea of Ben Casparius becoming
a high leverage reliever and using somebody else to be
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the bulk long man for the Dodgers. Ben has been
outstanding in so many different ways. All right. I want
to share this with you. And it's not an on
this date in Dodger history that goes back to Brooklyn.
This happened back in twenty sixteen and I lived it.
We all lived it. Remember, during the twenty fifteen NLDS,
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Chase Utley at City Field slid into second base hard
Ruben Tahada broke his leg not because of Utley's slide,
but because Tahada in my opinion, was completely out of position.
His back was to home play, trying to do some
circus type of a play at second base, and Utley,
as he has done, goes in hard and all of
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a sudden, Joe Tory freaked out. A lot of pressure
from the New York media, New York and Major League Baseball.
They changed the rule. It's kind of dumb now where
guys can't go into second base like they used to.
But nonetheless, fast forward to the following year, first time
the Dodgers were back in city field, Noah Cindagard, yes
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you know where I'm going, was on the mound facing
Chase Utley in the first inning of that game, the
first time Chase Utley had returned to New York since
the twenty fifteen NLDS and the whole Ruben Tahada brew Haha.
Harry Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry, get.
Speaker 12 (51:05):
A handle, come on, let's call, come on, let me talk.
Speaker 6 (51:08):
To talk to me. Then you talk to me about it.
You look, you gotta give us a shot. You know what,
you give us shot. Listen to me and let me
hear what I'm saying.
Speaker 15 (51:19):
Okay, you get your son you had your son right
there in the situation.
Speaker 6 (51:23):
Why the hell the situation? Why shut that doesn't that
makes one?
Speaker 3 (51:28):
Terry?
Speaker 6 (51:28):
That makes it?
Speaker 5 (51:30):
I know nothing.
Speaker 12 (51:32):
I got nothingday that that I I told that, Harry.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
I can't told that.
Speaker 6 (51:36):
You know as well as I You know where I stand.
I'm hold but that's you know that, Harry. Listen, I'm
telling you our ass is in the.
Speaker 15 (51:45):
Jackpot now, Okay, okay, that's I'm just telling you.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
You know what.
Speaker 14 (51:51):
That's that's what you got.
Speaker 16 (51:52):
You got it, you don't get it, you got everything out.
Speaker 6 (51:55):
Hey, my ass was in the jackpot today too. That's
Tom Hallie and Terry Collins. And we all know now
that Noah Sindergard was on the Dodgers. He did not
have the heart to hit Chase Sutley. That's the reason
why he threw behind him. And Terry Collins overreacting. I mean,
come on, you had your chance, tell your second basement
or shortstop to play the position correctly and he wouldn't
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have gotten that hurt. Thank you very much. Joe Torri,
who I respect very much, overreacted and caved in and
made an overwhelming rules change that still lives in infamy
all right, that'll do it for us. On Dodger Talk
today Tomorrow off day Dodger Talk. Andre Ethier has begged
me to come on the show. So I'll be a
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charitable guy and put Ethier on the show tomorrow night.
On an off day Friday.
Speaker 17 (52:44):
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undefeated in eleven starts this year, seven to zero with
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Rogan and Rodney, Yes, a big half hour right around
the corner, Petros and Money coming up for our big four.
Speaker 6 (53:34):
At three o'clock once again. The final score in Cleveland,
The Guardians beat the Dodgers seven to four. We'll talk
to you tomorrow. Rogan and Rodney next see them
One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Let's not play one on Tom, Let's win this. I
love listening to these guys after the show.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
So just thank you, give me all your attention, your fire,
and not a pisson.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
This is world champion, Dodger world championing for a.
Speaker 6 (00:21):
Small soft time they get a people what they want
to die to in a row two is special. I'm like, yeah,
it's not a headache. One of the con This ball's gone.
You ready to go?
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Hell time, go to the su grab your phone to
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eighty seven two five seven and go to the show.
And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until two
thirty this afternoon. Then we'll hand it over to the
overworked Rogan and Rodney and then Petros the Money take
over for a full four hours right here on Dodgers
Radio and five to seventy LA Sports. We have three
lines open at eight six six nine, eight seven two
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five seventy. The Dodgers Fault today in Cleveland seven to
four to the Guardians. They had a golden opportunity to
sweep the Guardians and come back on a winning road
trip that started with them losing two out of three
to the Mets. Instead, they come back five hundred, but
obviously wanting more because they had this game, and unfortunately
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Tanner Scott and Alex Vesia cannot get them to the
finish line, in particular Tanner Scott, who has now blown
five saves after blowing just two all of last season.
And it's funny right already. The spin is out there
with some tweets where it was a seeing eye single
through the left side of the infield by Nolan Jones
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to beat Tanner Scott to tie the game with a
two run single. That's not completely true. I mean that
is where the ball went. But here's my question. And
Tanner Scott, we saw him last year. He was overpowering
at times last year. That's the reason why the Dodgers
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gave him the richest contract of any reliever this past offseason.
What we saw from Tanner Scott and what we have
seen from Tanner Scott is not the same guy that
we saw last year. Where's the guy that dominated Otani?
Last year right one for ten, he owns Otani because
he overpowered him with his fastball. Instead, he's thrown ninety
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six and he's casting his slider this year. I mean,
when you look at this play, this pitch sequencing from
Tanner Scott, he's got Nolan Jones, the leadoff hitter of
the Guardians, down one two, He's got two strikes on
him with one out and the bases loaded. You would
think he would want to try to get swing and
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miss and not put the ball in play. Number one.
Number two, if he and Will Smith have decided on
a slider, is why I'm so I just can't believe this.
That's the reason why. I mean, I'm it's incomprehensible to
me that the Dodger defense was shaded to pull Nolan
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Jones when Tanner Scott and Will Smith and remember there's
a pitch com right, so everybody in their hats here
what pitch is coming? So number one, why is Tanner
Scott and Will Smith not coming up and end to
try to strike out Nolan Jones? Number two? Why are
they throwing a slider away from the left handed hitting
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Jones with the infield shaded for Jones to pull Mookie
Betts was behind the bag. Why are you throwing that pitch?
Why is the defense aligned that way? The defense should
be aligned with the pitch. Is not everybody on the
same page here, So you know this is on Tanner Scott.
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I don't want to hear about how this ball was
seeing guy through the left side of the infield. No,
it was a poor pitch call. It was bad alignment
by the defense and whoever's aligning them. They were not
on the same page. That's the inside of the inside
of baseball that wins or loses games late and the
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Dodgers obviously were not on the same page. And Tanner
Scott obviously has not been the same Tanner Scott from
a year ago. It's utterly frustrating. And if you're Tanner
Scott and you're the closer and you're making more than
anybody else in that bullpen, you should be standing at
your locker after the game today. You know. Kenley Jansen
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used to get criticized early in his closing career after
he blew saves rare saves by the way with the
Dodgers that he wasn't at his locker to be accountable.
Where was Tanner Scott. Today he did not speak to
the media. You've got to be there. It shouldn't be
just Alex Vessia. Sorry, Alex Vesia had to try to
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clean up a mess. Alex Vessi is a two time
World Series champion. He has credibility with this fan base.
Tanner Scott, you don't eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go back
to Cleveland to the only stand up reliever speaking to
the media after he gave up the go ahead three
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run home run to Unhel Martinez. Alex Vesia, I.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Mean tried to throw him, obviously, two change ups and
they were not very good. So and then say fast
balls right down the middles. Gotta be better in those situations. Obviously, Yeah, the.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Little them are hard contact than usual for you. What
do you think is leading to that right now?
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Just misses have been bad. It's pretty much it's gotta
gotta keep going and uh, executing pitches a little bit better.
Is it more mechanical pen that you're kind of working
through or it's just like a bunch of other on sources.
How it's going right now? Made mechanically? I feel fine,
So it's I don't think it's anything regarding that.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
I think it's just.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Making bad pitches.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Much just with kind of the workload the bullpen's taken
on lately, Like how tough has it been as a
group just to kind of keep bouncing back, and I.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Mean bullpens, the bullpen, man, I mean it's I feel
like we go through it every year. So it's, uh,
you know, we're a bunch of tough guys down there,
and I'll bet on anybody, so at the end of
the day, I gotta do a better job.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
All right. There's the stand up Alex Vesia, the two
time Series champion, Alex Vesia answering the questions in front
of his locker. Unlike Tanner Scott by the way, Alex Vesia,
I mean, he hasn't been the same guy as far
as keeping the ball in the ballpark. That's been a
problem for him and the rest of the Dodger bullpen
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this year. They have allowed thirty three home runs this year.
That's the second most in Baseball of any bullpen two
the Angels, who have given up one more thirty four
home runs. The Dodgers and Red Sox have blown the
same amount of saves this year twelve blown saves to
lead Major League Baseball. The Dodger bullpen gives up five
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runs today to blow what would have been Clayton Kershaw's
first win of the year. He had a gutsy performance.
He competed his butt off for five innings to put
the Dodgers in position along with their offense to get
this win. But it wasn't meant to be. Eight six, six, nine,
eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number, David
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Vasse with you until two thirty today here on a
five seventy LA Sports. After the Guardians score five in
the eighth and beat the Dodgers seven to four, let's
go out to riverside. Michael lead us off on Dodger Talk.
Hi Michael, Hi Dave, how are you doing. I've been better, Michael.
I'm a little frustrated with way things have gone for
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the Dodger bullpen and for this team, and certainly from
you know, honestly a disappointing start by Tanner Scott.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Well, I wouldn't just say disappointing for Tanner Scott. There's
a lot of pitches on this staff that he just
whipped himself in the mirror and take take Payton Kershaw's
leads on not only competing, but not not just throwing,
but learning how pitch against some of these Major League
Baseball lineups. You know, you know, I've been a lifelong
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Dodgers fan. I grew up in the late seventies going
to the Dodger games when they were playing Yankees in
the playoffs, and I was looking up do that. I
think we've been lucky enough as a fan base to
have some broadcasts over the years. Not only been, of course,
but Rick Monday, as you mentioned yesterday, how his baseball
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IQ and just his knowledge of the game is second
to none. And we're not only lucky enough to have him,
but Jose Mota as the second one. You know, he's
got an amazing insight as well, and uh you know, uh,
it's it's it's refreshing to to to get their takes
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on a day and a day off basis not only
there but yours as well. One thing I will mention,
uh in conclusion of the broadcasting, Uh, he made comments
with regard to I believe it was Wayne Rendozo a
few days ago on the Apple broadcast or what have you,
and how much of a homer. He is for a
team that he doesn't even represent anymore. But uh, you know,
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I I do understand broadcasts are homers to a certain
extent for the teams that they actually are employed by.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Well, I'm not a big believer in homers. That's not
what we're accustomed to in La, Michael. I mean, if
you grew up in La, we had the best of
the best, and we all knew they obviously wanted their
teams to win, but they always called it down the middle,
some more than others. Chick hern Ward on his sleeve
a lot, but Vince Scully, Bob Miller, even Dick Emberg
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back in the day. And look, my only gripe with
Wayne Randazzo that night was that he was basically calling
the umpire stupid when that broadcast booth that had no
idea about the rule as far as what it is
to tag up when a ball is being babbled. That
was my only gripe is it's fine if you don't
know the rule, but you're basically calling everybody else the
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idiot when they had the call right, and honestly, even
Brian Gorman in New York, I mean, yeah, he had
it right. They went to him, and that was a
good thing to have that tool at their disposal. Look,
I'm not in the business of criticizing broadcasters or play
by play guys. They're like in the cockpit flying a plane.
It looks a lot easier than what it is. It's
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not that easy. So I'm not in the business of
criticizing play by play guys. Let's go out to Eric
in the two one three. You're on Dodger Talk. How
you doing Eric?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You doing good? Dave Man. I love your passion, man,
I love the fire in you because it tells me
that you care and I care too. You know a
few things really quickly, Man, Why is Kim not playing? Man?
He started?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
That's not the reason why they lost today. Kim's a
role playing I know that, of course.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
No, No, hold on, hold on, I know that. I'm
just I'm just trying to get my points out. I'm
just saying, but.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Why would you call about hay Song Kim when the
Dodger bullpen gave up five runs in the eighth inning.
It has nothing to do with today's game, because.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You're not letting me finish my take, man, Okay, well
finish it. I'm calling about it. I'm calling about it
because he started off hot, then you benched him. It's all,
you know, Roberts Freeman being cute. And it leads me
to my next take, which is putting in Tanner Scott
right in the seventh inning, Like, what is there like
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something that I don't know in terms of the splits?
Is he doing something different? You know, baseball players are
creatures of habits.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I noticed because I used to be a baseball player myself.
It's very routine.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Orient Well, here's a memo for you, Eric. It doesn't
matter if it's been the ninth inning, the eighth inning,
or the seventh inning. Tanner Scott has not been the
same guy. And Dave Roberts put him in to face
a weak part of the lineup, maybe to help him
get his confidence back, and he still couldn't get the outs.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
And guess what this leads me to. My next take
is Freedman giving the contracts to the wrong guys. Why
are you know?
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Look, okay, hold on, hold on, let me ask you
a question. Were you celebrating in the streets when he
signed Tanner Scott Because the rest of the baseball world
was they couldn't believe they signed him, and everybody thought, Okay,
that's it. So you know, be honest with me. When
they signed Tanner Scott, were you excited?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And and snell.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
I asked you a question, Eric, I asked you a question.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
No, I'm saying what am I saying, David? I'm saying
that I was happy because when he signed, snell I
was happy to blast. Now when he signed Glass Now
the year before, I was happy too. So here's here's
my question. This is my question. Okay, is it are
we signing the wrong guys and they're getting injured or
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is there something more going on in terms of the
pitching staff, the workload, what we're doing with these pictures
that are leading to these injuries.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Man, all right, well you're going all over You're going
all over the place with that question. You're talking about
Tanner Scott, who's healthy, You're talking about the off season signings.
You're all over the place on that, Eric. So I
can only answer the questions that I can answer. The
pitching injuries is one thing. Signing the wrong guys is another.
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The Dodger signed what everybody thought were the right guys,
but they just haven't performed. Snell got hurt, Tanner Scott
hasn't performed, Michael Confordo hasn't performed, Kirby Yates has been. Okay,
so every off season signing hasn't panned out the way
everybody thought it would, not just in the Dodger front office,
but across LA and across Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Okay, but here's my question. Are you here, Dave?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
You have a lot of questions that are not connecting.
You went from Hay Song Kim to Tanner Scott to
pitch your internet. I gotta move on. Sorry, Sorry, you
were bouncing all around like a Plinko board on prices right.
I'm very happy to answer all these questions. But Hay
Song Kim and bringing in Tanner Scott in the seventh
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inning have nothing to do with each other. They are
mutually exclusive. And Hay Song Kim not playing today had
nothing to do with Tanner Scott and Alex Vesia giving
up the game in the eighth inning. Sorry, let's go
to Walnut.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
Jay.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
You're on Dodger Talk. Wow, j My head have to
get my head back on straight after that call.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, most definitely, so as I see it, for the
Dodger pitching, we are terrible and the amount of contracts
they just gave out to terrible pitchers like Blake Snell,
Tanner Scott for example.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Were they terrible though? Isn't there a reason why other
teams were trying to sign them? And you know they
they were coveted as much as they were. I don't
feel like they are terrible. And when Blake Snell gets back,
I don't think I.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Think he'll be when it comes to actually doing their
part of the job.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Oh, right now, they haven't done their job. You're right, Jay,
it hasn't been a good start for those guys. So
what's your solution?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Work with somebody like that and you can't get any
wins or you can't get the job done. It's like,
I don't know how the team must feel having a
ride with those guys on the bus, on the plane.
It's it's terrible, man. It's making everybody upset.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And in the.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Offseason when they signed all these guys, I didn't think
it was a great idea.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Oh really, there's.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Much better pitching out there.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
That Really, who did you want the Dodgers to sign?
Why don't you tell me what your shopping list was
and what you could have done better instead of Tanner Scott,
the best closer on the market, and Blake Snell along
with Max Free, the two best starters on the market.
The only argument you would have, Jay, that would hold
credibility at this point was the Dodgers maybe should have
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signed Max Freed instead of Blake Snell. And even that
is a huge armchair quarterback call.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah, but se that's that's that's a problem. Are either
the pitching coaches are not.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Oh yeah, it's the pitching coach's fault that a two
time Cy Young winner decided to pitch through a shoulder
issue that they could have nipped in the bud if
he was just honest with them. Sorry, Jay, apologize. That's
not on the pitching coaches. It's not on Andrew Friedman.
Blake Snell is our pregame guest two Saturdays ago and
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even took responsibility for that. So here's my thing. Here
are guys that have signed big contracts, Michael CONFORDO even
for one year, big contract, Blake Snell, Tanner Scott. At
some point you have to acknowledge, especially early in the year,
We've seen this time and time again. We're seeing it
in New York with Wan Soa and the Mets. These
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guys try too hard to impress to justify their contracts,
and then they settle into it. I fully expect that
to happen with Blake Snell. I hope that happens with
Tanner Scott. Like I said today, that was a groundball
to shortstop. If Mookie Betts is positioned where he needed
to be on a slider away from a left hander,
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it makes no sense why the Dodgers infield was positioned
to pull on a left handed hitter like Nolan Jones
when there's two strikes on him, and Tanner Scott and
Will Smith on the pitch com are saying they're going
away with a slider. Where's the strikeout pitch? By the way,
as well, how about don't leave it to chance and
strike them out, throw a fastball up and in tie
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him up and move on with the bases loaded. Eight six, six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number
Dodgers blow their twelfth save of the season. That's the
most in baseball. With the Boston Red Sox as the
Guardians a void, a three game sweep seven to four.
Let's go out to see me Valley Sam you're on
Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
How you doing, Sam, I'm doing pretty good. This whole
Tanner Scott situation brings back memories of Tom Devency or
when he gave a home up. I'm not home runs
up in the in a playoff game or a World
series and they end up losing the series.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah, that was the NLCS in nineteen eighty five. He
gave up a home run to Ozzie Smith and Game
five and then gave up a go ahead home run
to Jack Clark, and it's completely different. So go ahead
with your call.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Well, yeah, I just and then he came back to
next year and then just Temyer didn't perform at all.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Yeah, he was old.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
But I do what yeh, what I do like is
or your point that you said that they brought him
in in the Panner Scott in the bottom of the
order to try to build up his confidence. I didn't
even think about that. And that was that was I
really I thought that was a really good point you
brought up.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Hey, thank you. Do you know what the batting averages
of the players he faced were. We're talking about a
one fifty hitter, We're talking about a two sixteen hitter.
We're talking about a two forty six hitter. We're talking
about a catcher that probably is one of the worst
hitting catchers in baseball the last two years. Austin Hedges
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batting a Buck thirteen. I mean, those are the guys
we're talking about.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
Yeah, and it should be easy out see and get the.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Ball, and get the ball to Alex Vesia, who would
have came in in a clean inning to face the
top of the order. That was the thinking behind Dave
Roberts' strategy. Appreciate the phone call, and thank you again
for bringing up the most traumatizing moments of my childhood
watching the Dodgers, Tom Needon Fure giving up home runs
to the Cardinals in the eighty five NLCS. I don't
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know if you know this, but after he gave up
that home run to Jack Clark in Game six, in
the ninth inning of the eighty five NLCS, there was
a picture, black and white picture in the Herald Examiner,
the old Great Sports section, of Tommy Lasorda in his
office with both hands over his head, buried in his desk.
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I cut that picture out and put it on my
bedroom door until spring training the next year, and the
reason why Tom Needon Fure was in that game. Steve
Jaeger Rick Monday have explained this to me. He was
overworked that year because I'm fortunately Steve House demons caught
up with him in the beginning of the year. So
Tom needing Fewer was the best reliever and was overworked
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by the time they got there in the NLCS. So
thank you very much for bringing up that great memory
of Tom needing Fewer and the Dodgers. All right, let's
go out to Huntington Beach. Paul, enough of David vasse
traumatization as a Dodger fan. How you doing, Paul.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
I'm good man, I loved, I loved, fired up David
pass I appreciate you today, dude, and I'm with you.
I don't know why we're comparing a loss in May
to giving up an NLCS on an over the hill
pitcher who's over worked compared to a guy that's.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Six weeks into a season.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
But that's beside the point. Yes, book man, I'm as
frustrated as anybody. The Bullton has been unwatchable. Twelve blown
saves is unexcusable. But let's be honest, dude, I mean,
we got at least four guys down there in the
pen that aren't even on this team. If we're healthy,
and if the nuts right, I mean, we're not healthy.
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So it is what it is. But this team is
doing very well considering everything they're dealing with. And by
the way, we went through something really similar last year,
except it was on the physician player side. Let's we forget.
We were running an infield out there of Nick Ahmed
and Cavin Bizzio and Chris Taylor on the regular and
we and we weathered that storm. We're gonna weather this
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storm and it's gonna be okay. I mean, if this
team were five games under five hundred, we can hit
the panic button. Otherwise, we have a road trip against
two really good teams and we come out of it
three and three in the midst of a dogfight of
a schedule at this point in the season.
Speaker 10 (22:45):
So yes, it sucks.
Speaker 11 (22:47):
Yes we get frustrated, but let's not compare anyone to
Tom mean feor let's take a deep breath. It's not
even freaking June first. All right, dude, I'm fired up too.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
I'll talk to you later on Hey Paul and Hintim
Beach the voice of re right there. I'm sure he
was at HQ Gastropub making that phone call, but he's right.
And I've used that comparison to last year as well.
Coming out of the All Star break, the Dodgers were
banged up for a variety of different reasons with their
position players and had to run out those guys and
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it was a rough patch. But the biggest difference is
there is nothing more demoralizing to a team than giving
up leads in the ninth inning or in the eighth inning,
when you think you have the game sewed up and
you have your closer coming into the seventh inning and
then into the eighth inning. There is nothing more demoralizing
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than a blown save. Trust me, the Three Red Sox
can attest to that. The biggest difference for the Red
Sox and four was not trading Nomar, it was getting
a real closer in Keith Folk. The Three Red Sox
blew so many leads late in the game, and the
Dodgers right now are in that category. They have lost
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twelve demoralizing leads they lead the league and blown saves
twelve and we're only what eight weeks into the season.
There is nothing more demoralizing than that, and that's part
of the reason why today, despite winning two out of
three in Cleveland, was a gut punch to lose this
game today, and even more concerning, like our guy, the
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Voice of Reason in Huntington Beach, Paul said, the Dodgers
are banged up in their bullpen. Hopefully they get Kirby
Yates back on this upcoming homestand hopefully Michael Kopek is
not that far behind. But you're not gonna be able
to go to those guys back to back games or
three out of four. Keep that in mind as well.
Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
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the phone number Dodgers fall to the Guardians today, seven
to four. Let's go out to David in Century City.
You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, David?
Speaker 12 (24:52):
Hey, David, I'm too in fine. I called you last
year and said you were my Dodgers therapist. I think
you need a Dodgers therapist today.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Yeah, we need a leather cap.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
But you're doing a great job. I was thinking about
your idea the other day about Bobby Miller coming in
in a relief position, and I actually thought about there's
a comp in Dodger history for someone like that, almost
the identical situation, and that was Eric Ganie. Yeah, he
came in as a starter, he kind of scuffled for
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a couple of years, and then he was the most
dominant closer for three consecutive years.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Great comparison.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
I think maybe Bobby could could fill that kind of role.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
And Danye was a fastball change up guy, and Bobby
Miller could be a fastball change up guy.
Speaker 12 (25:45):
Maybe you can arrange a meeting.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
I would love to. Danye is my guy. I gave
him a tour of Dodger Stadium and the Speakeasy a
couple of opening days ago. But hey, that's a great call, David.
That's a great comparison of a success story. Obviously, I
hate to say this, Pegagne. He had a little help
to be the guy that he was, but nonetheless he
was a better closer than he was a starter.
Speaker 12 (26:09):
He has a streak that I don't think I'll ever
be broken.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Eighty four eighty four yeah days, yeah, eighty four consecutive saves.
All right, and I'm with you, Bobby Bullpen, We're all in.
Speaker 12 (26:20):
So just to light in the mood, where was I
when Freeman hit Oh see.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
I love that on the eve of the World Series rematch.
All right, David, I said this at the beginning of
the year. I don't care the situation the blown saves.
I want to hear where you were when Freddy hit
his slam.
Speaker 12 (26:39):
So you know, I was on pins and needles with
my whole family in front of the TV, just thinking,
you know, the most negative thoughts about, oh my god,
we're about to go down, you know, one game to
nothing against the dreaded Yankees, and then all of a sudden,
he hits that home run and he holds that bat
up like a saber, and it was just a glorious moment,
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and I think something that every Dodger fan will remember
for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Are you gonna make it to any of the three
games this weekend? David, I will not.
Speaker 12 (27:09):
The prices are way too.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
High, are they. I haven't checked.
Speaker 12 (27:13):
Oh one more thing, one more thing. I was at
the Rick Monday game when he saved the American flag.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Wow, I mean you've seen a lot.
Speaker 12 (27:19):
Where was I moment?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
You sound young. I like your voice. You sound like
a very spry seventy years old.
Speaker 12 (27:27):
We'll not quite said, I'm not quite sixty yet, but
I was was actually there with you were a kid,
was there with a group of friends. Yeah, we were
there all together for a Sunday game, and we all
saw it together and it was you know.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Well, I take it back. You're right on point. You
do sound like a sixty year old, no doubt.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
All right, Well, thank you so much, Dave. Keep doing
a great job.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
All right, call back anytime. Thanks for the phone call.
Sorry about that, I said seventy. I thought maybe you
were twenty or something when Rick saved that flag in
seventy six. I apologize. Sixty years old. All right. We're
gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. When
we come back, we'll check in with Jose Mota. We'll
hear from Clayton Kershaw, who pitched very well today and
deserve to win. Unfortunately, the Dodgers give up five runs
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in the eighth inning and lose to the Guardians today
seven to four on A five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
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Speaker 6 (28:32):
This is Dodger Talk with David Bassen, no highlight, no highlight,
No on hell Martinez go ahead, three run, home run highlight.
The Dodgers fall to the Guardians today, seven to four.
They end their six game road trip five hundred three wins,
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three losses. They lost two out of three in New
York and win two out of three in Cleveland, but
obviously a downer on the flight home they thought they
had a sweep. Unfortunately they did not, as they had
seven four runs on seven hits, while the Guardians seven runs,
fifteen hits and scored five runs in that eighth inning.
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David vass with you until the bottom of the hour.
Well check in with Jose Mota in a moment. Also
a very entertaining day in Dodger history. And we also
want to send out our birthday wishes to Kirk Gibson.
Happy birthday, Gibbie, and also happy birthday to mister clutch
Jerry West, who he lost in the last year. Incredibly,
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I had a tighter relationship with Jerry West than I
do with Kirk Gibson, so I missed Jerry West a lot.
We would have a yearly dinner myself and Doug gricoryan
with Jerry West. One of the dinners that we went
to recently before he passed away was at the Dalray.
We went there and that was an awesome dinner Phil
trainees obviously, and the last time we had dinner together
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with Jerry West was a couple of years ago before
the game of a Clipper game at Staples Center because
they had a home game and we made a way
to meet him there. He invited us there and got
us tickets and obviously Duck recording and Jerry West go
a long ways away. When Doug was covering him with
the Herald Examiner, I got to know Jerry threw the
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great Duck recording and my one of my mentors, Joe McDonald.
They included me and those dinners and some of the
best basketball stories you would ever hear, and one of
the great guys you will ever meet, Jerry West. So
Karen West and Ryan and the rest of the family
were thinking about you, and of course Number forty four
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Dodgers lost today, but Clayton Kershawn, making his third start
of the year, pitched really well. He went five innings
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today and there's an argument to be made he could
have gone six innings today. Let's head back to Cleveland
to here from the future Hall of Famer.
Speaker 13 (31:14):
Yeah, I mean the first sitting was pretty rough.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (31:16):
You know, I think Andy making that throw, getting that
guy out a second was huge for me. Limited the damage.
And you know, I'm fighting some stuff mechanically and different things.
I was able to make a few pitches here and
there to get through five, but obviously wasn't pitching good
enough to be able to stay in the game, which
you know makes the Bowl been after more innings, and
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you know, sometimes stuff like this happens. So you know,
frustrating for sure, but you know, I think at the
same time, there's some there's some progress, still more reps
and you know, overall, to only give up one run
and pitch that bad is a good thing, so just
on to the next one. So it's that kind of
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like what you're hitting on last start, like you just
need to kind of need the reps at this point
just to kind of yeah, there's just some stuff I
need to just hammer down. I think I've created some
bad habits and you know, and just with with not
feeling my best, I think I created some bad habits
last year, so and then I haven't pitched a while.
You know, I haven't pitched a long time, So there's
just some growing pains. I think with the first you
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and you know, physically feel great, just gotta keep throwing
and figuring it out.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Where do you see that translates or just when the
command gets a little inconsistent or kind of executing.
Speaker 13 (32:31):
I mean, I think at the end of the day,
you just you know, when you're going good, you throw
a bad pitch, you can make the adjustment on the
next one. And right now the adjustment's just not happening
fast enough. So it just comes with time and reps
and I hope and we'll just keep doing that, all right.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
There's Clayton Kershaw. After five innings, he competed his way
through that allowed just one earned run and you heard
him say, yes, Andy pat has made a couple of
strong throws. Ta Oscar Hernandez also some strong throws. So
Andy Pa has quietly has become a guy for the Dodgers,
a dude, as they say, hitting two seventy now with
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an ops of seven sixty seven. He drove in a
run today and certainly has played really good outfield since
the beginning of the season. He has put in the
work and he has seen the fruits of that labor.
And Kershaw corrects me, he didn't feel like he deserved
to go back out there. He feels like he had
a very fortunate five innings. But he's going to be
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harder on himself than anybody else. And he's right. He
hasn't pitched an over a year. This was only really
his second start of the year because of the rain
in New York, where he only got to go two innings.
So this will be a gradual build up and hopefully
the next time out he can go six innings at
the very least. I know that's what he expects. He
doesn't really celebrate five innings. In case you're wondering, he
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did have three strikeouts today, so he's just twenty six
away from three thousand in his career. Seven two, five
seventy is the phone number. We'll get back to your
calls in a moment, but first.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
It's tough to go around the horn with Hoseane Mota.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
All right, jose Mota, you just heard from Clayton Kershaw.
What did you think about his outing and do you
believe that it is a work in progress?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Oh, it is a work in progress. But I'll tell
you what, man, he stands up like a man and
faces really reality and where he is on the things
that he wanted to do better. And that's his picture
credibility and accountability right there to say, hey, I know
that there's some things that I missed with there's a
couple of pictures early that he got squeezed with. He
just got the ball and right back auld work, and
I think I truly admire that. And you know, even
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though the Dodgers starting pictures have been scuffling, getting you
through six or seven innings, we've got to take it
one step at a time with him, his execution got
better as a game progressed. So I know he demands
a lot of out of himself. But you know what,
kurse last seven innings right now? He is allowed one
earn run and I'll take that any single time, and
his leadership should sort of well in the clubhouse in
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that right now, not just by what he brings, what
he carries, but also the way he acts and how
much he demands of himself every single time out.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
All right, let's fast forward to the eighth inning. Jose,
I've talked about this and Tanner Scott not getting many strikeouts,
and I just couldn't figure out why the Dodger defense
was not on the same page, or why Tanner Scott
was not on the same page with his defense. With
the pitch choice with two strikes on Nolan Jones.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I mean, it really comes down to execution, and he
used it out execute. I went back and looked at
spray charts on Nolan Jones, I went back and looked
at locations on Tanner Scott, and it really comes down
to Tanner Scott not making a pitch. Now, I did
share with you the high view, high home view of
the defense, and with a guy that throws that hard,
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usually you want to see an adjustment up the middle
with your middle infielder. Because if you notice that chart
and what I said to that graph, the outfielders are
playing opposite field and I mean they're shaded way over
the left field, but the middle is not. The infield
is not. And in that case, it's gonna come down
with Mookie Betts as he learns a position more and
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more to adjust on the fly. David, I'm telling you
is it doesn't come overnight. But those are things that
you have to do better at. Considering that the slaughter
is not a put away pitch right now for Tanner
Scott and the fact that if you stop the bat
on contact, it was just that location. But I do
want to see with two strikes on the leftild throws
out hard. Two things. Number one, this guy Lola Jones
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says one a ten against fastballs, and I know we
made that suggestions, which is a very good one one
at against fastballs. Number two is the white pout pitch
is not there right now and lefties are hitting three
fifty seven against you know, Tanner Scotts. There are so
many things to look at. But on the defensive side,
I do agree with you that you have to read
the swings and go out there and protect the outer
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half opposite field because a LEFTYBD like that, who's not
considered a power guy, just gives you more of a
chance to find holes, and he did.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
The consensus is Tanner Scott's finding too much of the plate,
whether it's a slider or a fastball, no doubt. How
does he get back to the Tanner Scott that the
Dodgers signed.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
He's got to work down Dave. I also went back
and looked at some of the things they did last year.
Where he lived, you know, we say where he lived,
the heat map. Everything's above right now, everything is you know,
above the knees and at the waist and bigley. Hitters
are not going to be full by ninety seven ninety
eight if you're living upstairs now. To make that fast
more more effective obviously is to vary the eyes of
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the hitters. And he's not doing it right now. The
slider is not a wipeout pitch right now because he's
thrown it too high. As you talked about, he's casting it,
he's not ripping it as Kershow does and did so
well today a couple of times, and that is constantly,
and hitters can smell that righty's lefty. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
You see when he pitch down on hedges. What happened
and certainly that was good execution, but he's not their
consistent basis and very unpredictable to see exactly where it's
going to go. But he definitely has to work down
in the zone a little bit more to get more
chases and even walk around with guys swinging around the
edges a little bit more. But I just don't see
it happening, and maybe he needs to adjust a little
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bit more on the way he thinking with one mile
hour lesson last year that he perhaps thinks need to
be adjusted for him.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers fall to
the Guardians today seven of four. Jose, let's talk about
something good. And the Dodger outfield has gotten a lot
of bet a lot better with Taoscar Hernandez getting more
reps in right field getting comfortable there, and Andy pie
is putting in so much work with Dino Ebel today
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it kind of helped kershaw last five innings.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
You go back to just three weeks ago, and so
let me go back to the first week of the season.
You and I were talking about this and you're like,
do you think this outfre is going to be challenging
going first a third? And yeah, the first couple of weeks. Yes,
that's changed now. Guys are attacking the ball. Now, guys
are taking better routs of the ball. Andy Piez is
a difference maker in the affield by the way he
goes after balls with his angles and how he throws
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a baseball. But it really saved curse today. But these
guys going out there and knowing that you got to
cut down the distance to see that third base coach
hold their arms up. Even if you're just charging hard,
you got to just have a reaction from a coach
or a player to say, I can't go right there.
And the guys are making very accurate So you know,
kudos Toadino and all the works he's put in. But
certainly I do admy the fact that even going back
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to the first second week of the season, things have
changed drastically in just the outfield play and how many
more runs they're saving nowadays.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
All right, they'll need all that defense. That was the
difference in the World Series last year, along with Freddie
Freeman being on another planet. Can't wait to see you
at Dodgers Stadium on Friday for Dodgers Yankees again.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Jose, All right, my friend, keep doing a good job, thank.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
You, thank you. There he goes Jose mode. I can't
stand too many compliments. Seated Jose eight six six nine
eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
fall to the Guardians seven to four. They are still
still going to be in first place. At the end
of today, they're thirty four and twenty two, tied in
the lost column with the San Diego Padres. Let's go
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out to Jim in Torrance, who also wants to flash
back to nineteen eighty five. Hi, Jim, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 14 (40:23):
Hey Dave, let me tell you something. Today was tough
to watch, but I'll tell you in eighty five that
was a killer. I'm the guy that took the picture
of Tommy Lesorda after the loss that you were talking
about a little earlier, And I'll tell were you really were.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
You were the guy that night. I had your photo
on my bedroom door for a whole year.
Speaker 14 (40:48):
You did that makes me happy and sad because it
was a sad picture.
Speaker 6 (40:53):
Yeah it was. I was depressed. Even eleven year old
kid knew not to pitch to Jack Clark.
Speaker 14 (41:02):
Well, I'll tell you Tommy was great when they won
great for pictures, but in a case like this, when
when the Dodgers lost or it was really tough, he.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Was a frightening guy.
Speaker 14 (41:14):
I went into it to his office and I was
hiding behind a guy named Alan Malamud.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
You might know him.
Speaker 6 (41:20):
Yeah, that was a good guy to hide behind. He
was pretty big.
Speaker 14 (41:24):
Well, he's a good guy to be behind. Corecoryan was
in there, and there was only.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
Why would you pitch to Jack Clark Why.
Speaker 14 (41:34):
They were a little more subdued, but only three reporters
had the guts to go in there and talk to
him because he could be tough, and knowing that, I
literally snuck in behind him, had my camera ready. I
was behind Malamud and I was watching and watching, and
when his hands went up over his face, I shot
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one frame and I'm telling Dave, I ran out the
door and survived.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
Hey, that picture said one thousand words, And uh, that's awesome, Jim,
thank you for calling. That's a full circle moment for me.
One of the most traumatizing sports moments in my life.
That and the Lakers losing in Game seven of the
eighty four Finals.
Speaker 14 (42:17):
Yeah, that was another one, Dave. I appreciate that and
if you lit up my day when you mentioned a.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Picture I shot.
Speaker 6 (42:24):
Hey, you lit up my day years ago. I know,
I know, I wish. Oh man. Let's let's leave it
right there, Jim. Okay, let's not go down any further.
All right, thank you, Jim. I appreciate the phone call.
Those were two great columnists in Tommy's office, that's for sure,
Doug Grecreyn and the great Alan Malamode. Malamud eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
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Let's stay in the OC. Well, let's go down to
the OC. Sorry, I know Torrence is the South Bay.
I apologize, Orange County. Steve, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 15 (42:56):
How you doing, Hey, I'm great, Thank you, Dave. You know,
the guy from Hunting to Beach was very uplifting what
he had to say. My take so far is that
our starting pitchers are not giving us the innings that
we need. We're almost like it's almost like every game
is an opener. Kurse did a great job today. Our
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bullpen is just tired. Too many innings. I don't fault
fetch you for his mistake today. They happened the a bullpen. Guys,
They're not allowed to have a bad day. They have
to be perfect every time they go out, and we
all know people aren't perfect. I think Tanner Scott needs
to sit down for five days. He needs to get
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his act together. And I'm going to be controversial here.
The Dodgers have had a non group come out and
be a pregame.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
Come on, Steve, you're gonna go that route.
Speaker 15 (43:49):
No, no, no, hang on, And that was a real debacle.
But I'll tell you who's the starting pitcher right now,
who come in and pitch for a thousand bucks, who's
worth one game shot? And that's Trevor Bauer, who could
come in and give us innings. I know he's not
like there. I know he's controversial, but you lay it
on the line for this guy, say, look, you got
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one game, you're gonna get a thousand bucks. Give us
this six innings and we'll see.
Speaker 6 (44:13):
What treating it like a Sunday Beer League. They're not
just bringing in a guy for one thousand dollars in
a major league game. Steve, thank you for the phone call.
Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
phone number. Look, that's that phone call started out really well.
And then it evolved. So I'm sorry, but I thought
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maybe the best suggestion was our guy David in Century City.
Going with what I suggested the other day, the Dodgers
should consider Bobby Miller coming out of the bullpen, at
least for the short term and see where it goes
from there, because right now they need some help in
that bullpen. And like you said, I thought it was
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a great pull. Eric Gangne was He's a middling starter,
And actually the Dodgers gave the Blue Jays the option
of either Luke Procopec or Eric Ganne in an offseason
trade for Jason Worth. The Blue Jays chose Procopec, and
Ganie got wind of it and obviously got a wake
up call when the Dodgers told him you're going to
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the bullpen. And he became the most dominant closer of
his generation. Eighty four consecutive saves, and he did it
with ninety nine miles an hour, and he did it
with a bugs Bunny changeup, and we got a glimpse
of what could be for Bobby bullpen if the Dodgers
decided to have Miller become a relief pitcher. Ninety nine
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to one, Soto eighty six change down in a way.
That's all he needs as a late inning reliever. Here's
another suggestion. Ben Casparius has been so valuable in so
many different ways. Right He's come in, he's opened, he's
pitched three innings, he's pitched one batter. I feel like
at this point in time, the Dodgers can find a
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Lou Trevine or a Matt Sower to be a guy
that can cover two or three innings. They need Ben
Casparius right now to be a high leverage reliever in
the seventh, eighth, or even ninth inning. Ben Casparius is
a big time weapon. And I know he's a starter.
He could even start if they decided to go that route.
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But they need him as a high leverage reliever, and
he would do it. He's embraced everything the Dodgers have
asked him to do. It's time to consider Ben Casparius
as a high leverage reliever in the eighth inning, a
four out type of guy. Whether it's a closer on
certain nights or a guy that bridges from the seventh
inning to the eighth inning. It's time for Ben Casparius
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to be a high leverage reliever. Let's take one more
phone call before we share one of the most memorable
entertaining situations in recent Dodger history. Let's go out to Oceanside. Paul,
you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Paul, I'm doing well, Dave.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Thank you. You've had some funny callers today.
Speaker 6 (47:03):
Yeah, you're not gonna suggest bringing back Yassi ol Puigue.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
Are you get to pitch? Yeah?
Speaker 16 (47:11):
No, But I would like to expand a little bit, Dave,
if you would please on this. I'm gonna piggyback the
uh Eric Guignier thing and the Bobby Miller thing. If
you could maybe enlighten us on when the Dodgers have
like these really good starting pitchers in triple A, do
they not want to use them as short term relievers
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because of the development of the picture or why do
you know why we wouldn't bring up a couple of
these guys justice do some spot eighth, seventh, eight things
like we could have used today? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (47:48):
Number one, it has a lot to do with development.
They don't want to stunt the young man's development as
a starting pitcher, and a lot of times you're kind
of playing with their career, right, Paul, Because they're a
starting pitcher, all of a sudden, you're going to make
them a relief pitcher. I think the Dodgers want to
give some of these guys more of an opportunity to
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prove that they can start. But for whatever reason, it
hasn't clicked with Bobby Miller. The Dodgers have to consider
and Bobby quite honestly, would have to embrace this role
if he wants to be in the big leagues this
year and help the Dodgers make a run for his
second World Championship, that would be the best role for
him to be a relief pitcher in some form or fashion.
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And who knows, you know, closers I e. Tanner Scott
make a lot of money being a really good relief pitcher.
So it's up to the team obviously to make that
decision with the player. But the players has got to
want to embrace that role.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Great, Thank you, Dave. Yeah, I thought it might be
development wise, could stunt them, but really appreciate your work
and keep.
Speaker 6 (48:57):
Up the good job, all right, Paul, thanks a lot
for the phone call. Appreciate it. Yeah, you know, I
could say Bobby Miller and the Dodgers could believe Bobby
Miller could help them out of the bullpen. But unless
Bobby Miller believes it and embraces it, it's not going
to work. So we'll see. I don't know where his
head's at, where the Dodgers head's at right now, but
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certainly it could work. It can work, and Ben Casparius
may be needed as a high leverage reliever considering Evan
Phillips has no timetable on his return, Blake Trinin not
expected to come back until the final months of the season.
So it's not the craziest idea of Ben Casparius becoming
a high leverage reliever and using somebody else to be
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the bulk long man for the Dodgers. Ben has been
outstanding in so many different ways. All right. I want
to share this with you. And it's not an on
this date in Dodger history that goes back to Brooklyn.
This happened back in twenty sixteen and I lived it.
We all lived it. Remember, during the twenty fifteen NLDS,
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Chase Utley at City Field slid into second base hard
Ruben Tahada broke his leg not because of Utley's slide,
but because Tahada in my opinion, was completely out of position.
His back was to home play, trying to do some
circus type of a play at second base, and Utley,
as he has done, goes in hard and all of
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a sudden, Joe Tory freaked out. A lot of pressure
from the New York media, New York and Major League Baseball.
They changed the rule. It's kind of dumb now where
guys can't go into second base like they used to.
But nonetheless, fast forward to the following year, first time
the Dodgers were back in city field, Noah Cindagard, yes
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you know where I'm going, was on the mound facing
Chase Utley in the first inning of that game, the
first time Chase Utley had returned to New York since
the twenty fifteen NLDS and the whole Ruben Tahada brew Haha.
Harry Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry, get.
Speaker 12 (51:05):
A handle, come on, let's call, come on, let me talk.
Speaker 6 (51:08):
To talk to me. Then you talk to me about it.
You look, you gotta give us a shot. You know what,
you give us shot. Listen to me and let me
hear what I'm saying.
Speaker 15 (51:19):
Okay, you get your son you had your son right
there in the situation.
Speaker 6 (51:23):
Why the hell the situation? Why shut that doesn't that
makes one?
Speaker 3 (51:28):
Terry?
Speaker 6 (51:28):
That makes it?
Speaker 5 (51:30):
I know nothing.
Speaker 12 (51:32):
I got nothingday that that I I told that, Harry.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
I can't told that.
Speaker 6 (51:36):
You know as well as I You know where I stand.
I'm hold but that's you know that, Harry. Listen, I'm
telling you our ass is in the.
Speaker 15 (51:45):
Jackpot now, Okay, okay, that's I'm just telling you.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
You know what.
Speaker 14 (51:51):
That's that's what you got.
Speaker 16 (51:52):
You got it, you don't get it, you got everything out.
Speaker 6 (51:55):
Hey, my ass was in the jackpot today too. That's
Tom Hallie and Terry Collins. And we all know now
that Noah Sindergard was on the Dodgers. He did not
have the heart to hit Chase Sutley. That's the reason
why he threw behind him. And Terry Collins overreacting. I mean,
come on, you had your chance, tell your second basement
or shortstop to play the position correctly and he wouldn't
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have gotten that hurt. Thank you very much. Joe Torri,
who I respect very much, overreacted and caved in and
made an overwhelming rules change that still lives in infamy
all right, that'll do it for us. On Dodger Talk
today Tomorrow off day Dodger Talk. Andre Ethier has begged
me to come on the show. So I'll be a
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charitable guy and put Ethier on the show tomorrow night.
On an off day Friday.
Speaker 17 (52:44):
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undefeated in eleven starts this year, seven to zero with
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the corner, Petros and Money coming up for our big four.
Speaker 6 (53:34):
At three o'clock once again. The final score in Cleveland,
The Guardians beat the Dodgers seven to four. We'll talk
to you tomorrow. Rogan and Rodney next see them
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